Major General Bruce M. Lawlor (ret.)Chief of Staff Department of Homeland Security (2003-2006)
Director of the Center for Technology, Security, and Public Policy at Virginia Tech and Member of the Commission on the Black Sea

Hon. Dan MaffeiUnited States Congressman, 25th District of the State of New York

John O’Sullivanformer Special Advisor to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher; Editor at Large, National Review, UK

Syndicated Columnist - "Atlantic Eye" at United Press International (UPI)

Member of the Editorial Board, Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance and Business Ventures

Associate Fellow and Professor, International Institute for Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics (IIAS), Windsor, Canada

Senior Associate, Moynihan Institute for Global Affairs, The Maxwell School of Citizenship, Syracuse University

Curriculum Vitae

An entrepreneur and philanthropist, Marc Ellenbogen has advised many political personalities. A member of several corporate boards, he is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance and Business Ventures. A Senior Advisor to the Oxford University European Affairs Society, he is considered an expert on economic and security questions for Central Europe and has collaborated on several publications and articles. He is one of the few U.S. members of the von Clausewitz-Gesellschaft.

Ellenbogen is a Senior Associate at the Global Affairs Institute of the Maxwell School, Syracuse; and Associate Fellow and Professor, the International Institute for Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics, Windsor, Canada. His previous appointments include Visiting Fellow, Magdalen College, Oxford and Graduate Scholar for the New York State Legislature.

His next book title is As Down to Earth as Arrogance Gets � The Politics of the 90s. A United States citizen with residence in Prague, Marc Ellenbogen was born and raised in Heidelberg, Germany. He attended Syracuse on a military scholarship.